If this is what conservatism has become, count me out

I’m used to being vilified by the far left as a bloodthirsty neocon warmonger for the Original Sin of having supported the invasion of Iraq along with 72 percent of the American public. It has been a little more surprising to be simultaneously vilified by the far right as a dangerous left-winger.

David Horowitz’s FrontPage magazine accused me of going “full leftist” for acknowledging that racism and sexism remain pervasive problems. Breitbart called me, with ironic quotation marks, the “Washington Post’s ostensibly new ‘conservative’ columnist,” because, among other sins, I support gun control and immigration. American Greatness wrote that I am a “soulless, craven opportunist” whose “brain is broken,” because I compared President Trump’s indifference to the 2016 Russian election assault to a president ignoring 9/11. For the same offense, Jack Posobiec — an Internet troll notorious for pushing the theory that Hillary Clinton was running a child-sex ring out of a Washington pizza parlor — said I was “sick” and a “Russian propagandist.” In the Orwellian language of the far right, someone who wants to combat Russian aggression is a “Russian propagandist,” whereas someone who echoes Russian propaganda is putting “America first.”
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Naturally, just as drug addicts need bigger doses over time, these outrage artists must be ever more transgressive to get the attention they crave. Coulter’s book titles have gone from accusing Bill Clinton of “High Crimes and Misdemeanors” to accusing all liberals of “Treason,” of being “Godless” and even “Demonic.” Her latest assault on the public’s intelligence was called “In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!”

If this is what mainstream conservatism has become — and it is — count me out.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/opinions/if-this-is-what-conservatism-has-become-count-me-out/2018/02/25/853685c6-19bd-11e8-92c9-376b4fe57ff7_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.bf6d3f481b01&__twitter_impression=true

Some NRA facts

From the Divine Miss M :

And now for something completely different :

CPAC allows conservatives to show their real colors.

The NRA is using Trumps playbook to attack the news media

Australian PM declines to offer Trump any advice on gun control

I have a lot of respect for these kids from Florida. I hope they succeed where others didn't.

Cabbage Roll Soup. Yum!

It's a cold, rainy day, so I made a pot of soup and it hit the spot. I found this recipe for Cabbage Roll Soup on Pinterest and thought it sounded good. I was right. Luckily, I have a full kitchen at work and the boss has no problem with me using it when I have some slack time.

https://www.cookingclassy.com/cabbage-roll-soup/

I tweaked it a little bit, although I think it would be great just as it's written, but I rarely fix anything just as it's written. For one thing, I added more beef broth because I wanted it to be a little "soupier". I altered some of the seasonings, as well, just to my taste. I'm putting some up in the freezer and sharing some with my boss. I hope the rice doesn't turn to mush, but if it does it won't hurt the taste.

Cops: Elementary kids find loaded gun teacher left in Pa. school bathroom